"Impish and delightful-a hilarious Zagat's Guide to Heaven!"-Ray Bradbury"A fantastical, profound, hilarious and rollicking good ride through the heavens and hells of the afterlife! A wonderful book."-Margaret Cho"The Guide to the Afterlife is a mixture of fact and fiction, faith and mysticism at its best." -The New York Journal of BooksHell's too full, so the Devil hires ad man Dirk Quigby to pen a travel guide enticing travelers to different afterlives: Hindu, Cat...

This fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores kinship in today’s globalized, increasingly mobile world, and how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures.Written to engage students, each chapter provides key terms and useful generalizations gleaned through research on the interplay of kinship and gender in both traditional societies and contemporary communities. Detailed case ...

A dynamic leader and visionary teacher/scholar, Joyce E. King has made important contributions to the knowledge base on preparing teachers for diversity, culturally connected teaching and learning, and inclusive transformative leadership for change, often in creative partnership with communities. Dr. King is internationally recognized for her innovative interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching practice, and leadership. Her concept of "dysconscious racism" continues to influence research and...

The leading reference and text on the increasingly relevant and important topic of caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirementsA Doody’s Core Title for 2019!The timely publication of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations, Second Edition is designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best practices and compliance with le...

Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.

The guest editors for this issue, Talmadge King, Harold Collard, celebrated pulmonary specialists from UCSF, and Luca Richeldi, renowned visiting professor to UCSF from University of Modena, Italy, bring together a state-of-the-art issue on the important topic of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD). This comprehensive issue reviews the approach to diagnosis of ILD, radiology if ILD, pathology of ILD. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is discussed, including phenotypes and comorbidities, acute exa...

"Harry the cute little rabbit got lost in the dense forest and was helped by a small bird to find his way back home. Along the way, they encountered various animals, including a dangerous bear, but they managed to calm him down with some berries. They finally made it back home, and Harry invited the bird to stay for dinner as a thank-you. From then on, they became good friends and went on adventures together."

The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains and illustrates how an African worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve African heritage and cultural knowledge which have been historically discounted and decoupled from teaching and learning. The book has three objectives:To exemplify how each of the emancipatory pedagogies it delineates and demonstrates is supported by African worldview concepts a...

The far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected organizations of all types, including the church. It’s changed the way these entities serve their communities today and how they’ll continue to serve them throughout the postpandemic era.In The Malpractice of Ministry, author Dr. Jerome King offers insight into ministering in the postpandemic era without compromising the Great Commission, delving into purpose-driven church pre-pandemic and postpandemic. Using the metapho...

What kind of social studies knowledge can stimulate a critical and ethical dialog with the past and present? "Re-Membering" History in Student and Teacher Learning answers this question by explaining and illustrating a process of historical recovery that merges Afrocentric theory and principles of culturally informed curricular practice to reconnect multiple knowledge bases and experiences. In the case studies presented, K-12 practitioners, teacher educators, preservice teachers, ...

Have you ever stopped and thought about all the magnificent ways God showed up for you during your journey of life? I Remember...When God Showed Up: A Journey of Faith walks you through my life and even allows you to see, perhaps, some of your own similar life experiences along the way. It is filled with inspiring accounts of how God worked through life-changing events—from a miscarriage, a near-death accident, to starting and building a successful business. It will definitely cause you to...

There is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six-moon lengths, and where the nights have to come with a double endowment of vastness and splendor to compensate for the tedious, sun-parched days. And in that country the women love to sit and talk together of summe'r nights, on balconies, in their vague, loose white garments—men are not balcony sitters—with their sleeping children within easy hearing, the stars breaking the cool darkness, or the moon m...